Mitt Romney successfully played possum in Iowa, looking for months like he wouldn’t seriously try to win the state’s caucuses, then pouring in resources in the last few weeks and ending up essentially tied for the top spot.
Romney finished a disappointing second in the 2008 Republican caucuses, but he ran a leaner, more targeted campaign this time. His results were met with jubilant chants of “Mitt! Mitt! Mitt!” by the hundreds of people who packed his caucus party at the Hotel Fort Des Moines.
Brian Kennedy, chairman of Romney’s Iowa campaign, said the former Massachusetts governor should benefit from the spadework he did in other states instead of spending all of his time in Iowa over the past year. “He’s built a national political infrastructure. That’s something the other candidates simply haven’t done.”
Mitt Romney’s unorthodox strategy pays off in Iowa
